When the flying cavalry was still forty battles away from Li Shimin and others, Li Shimin pointed his sword at the opposing cavalry and shouted: "Kill!"
The soldiers waved their swords and followed Li Shimin on their horses and galloped towards the opponent. .
At the same time, the opponent's arrows shot towards this side like a gust of wind.
Li Shimin waved his sword and cut off an arrow directed at his face.
The severed arrow deviated from the direction, but still grazed his cheek, leaving a blood stain on his face.
Although the guards around him were well-armored, they were not as lucky as him.
Many of them had arrows in their faces and were dismounted from their horses.
Some people were hit by arrows in their legs, feet, and arms, and howled in pain.
Others were hit by arrows on their mounts.
After the severe pain, a long roar and neighing made the rider on the horse fall off the horse, half to death, and then he was flying away as soon as he got up.
The scimitar cut off the neck.
In the wind and snow, Li Shimin and his bodyguards continued to rush towards the two or three hundred flying cavalry without hesitation.
They all knew the principle of living towards death.
As long as they rushed over and ran westward for more than ten miles, they would be able to defeat them.
Plunge into the vast Taihang mountains.
Contrary to their expectations, these Sui army flying cavalry did not try their best to intercept them, but rode their horses to the side, but the arrows they shot did not stop.
Riders from the Tang army were constantly hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
After Tang Jun galloped past, they gathered together again and were still chasing after him.
Of course, the arrows still came like locusts.
Li Shimin saw that it was impossible to escape at this rate, and soon there would be very few of his men left, so he simply turned around and came back, trying to defeat the two or three hundred cavalry.
However, these flying cavalry still ignored the Tang army.
Relying on the speed of their horses, they always kept a distance from Li Shimin and others.
The bows and arrows in their hands were not idle.
They continued to draw their bows and release arrows, killing the Tang soldiers one by one.
Only when there were only thirty or forty men left in the Tang army did they charge forward brandishing their scimitars.
The remaining Tang troops were killed one by one, including of course Li Shimin who had been hit by seven arrows.
The wilderness was already completely white, but the charcoal stove inside the main tent of the Lion's Castle was as warm as spring.
Yang Guang looked at Li Shimin's head which was put on the table by the soldiers, and knew that the overall situation had been decided.
A month later, Lai Hu'er led 20,000 Xiaoguo troops to march northward in the snow and invaded Jinyang.
The officials of the puppet Tang Dynasty who stayed in Jinyang, led by Wei Zheng, lined up outside the city gate to welcome him and performed a surrender ceremony.
Three months later, when spring comes and flowers bloom, the ice melts and the snow melts.
The Taihang Mountain pass was now passable.
Duan Da's 20,000 Sui troops and 10,000 elite Tianxing troops who had stationed troops left Taihang east, and joined forces with Wang Shichong of Hebei to sweep all the counties and counties in Hebei and Liaodong.
The remnants of the Tang army and other small rebel groups had to surrender or be defeated.
Lai Hu'er, Shen Guang, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Yaojin who were stationed in Jinyang divided their forces to attack several cities north of Jinyang and east of Shuofang where the remnants of the Tang army in Hedong were entrenched.
At this point, except for Liang Shidu, who was protected by the Turks, there were no rebels in the world who rebelled against the Sui Dynasty.
Yang Guang did not continue to pursue the victory, but began to rest and recuperate again to accumulate national strength.
Both the Tujue and Liang divisions were impressed by the power of the Sui army and did not dare to take the initiative to cause trouble.
Three years later, nineteen years of great cause.
Yang Guang, who was over fifty years old, once again sent troops to the north.
He raised an army of 30,000 days, and 70,000 Xiaoguo Forbidden Army troops divided into three groups and marched towards Yanzhou and Honghua, where Liang's division capital was entrenched.
In the past three years, the Xiaoguo Army has expanded by 50,000 people, and its arms and military systems have been innovated after the Tianxing Army.
In addition to the two arms types of long archers and mountain spearmen, the rest of the Tianxing Army and the Xiaoguo Forbidden Army also have all of them.
The 70,000 Xiaoguo Imperial Guards were equipped with 2,000 ballistas alone.
The Sui army attacked the city and captured territory in successive victories.
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In just one month, the Sui Army's middle route army, composed of 5,000 heavy cavalry, 15,000 flying cavalry, 5,000 long archers, 10,000 Xiaoguo infantry, and 5,000 mountain spearmen, had already arrived at the "Liang Dynasty" The capital of Shuofang County is under Xiazhou City.
The panicked Master Liang sent a letter for help to the Turkic Khan early.
He soon received a response.
Turkic Shibi Khan sent 30,000 Turkic cavalry to rush to Shuofang's aid.
Large groups of Turkic cavalry with wolf-head flags appeared one after another on the loess ridge south of Xiazhou City and gathered together.
Encounters between the Sui army's reconnaissance cavalry and the Turkic cavalry and the Pseudo-Liang reconnaissance cavalry broke out more and more frequently.
There were many encounters between combat troops or baggage troops from both sides.
Both sides knew that the day of decisive battle was coming soon.
On the long plains filled with yellow dust, the overwhelming Turkic cavalry and Liang Dynasty cavalry were rapidly pressing towards the Sui Army formation.
The Liang Army infantry at the rear formed a formation to hold down the formation and protect the carriages and baggage behind them.
This time, Master Liang was convinced that he had seized the best opportunity for a decisive battle and tried his best to launch a strike.
This battle was triggered by a small-scale battle in which the Liang army ambushed the Sui army's baggage troops but was counterattacked.
The two sides successively gathered more and more reinforcements, and finally evolved into a decisive battle.
Behind the Sui army's formation, rows of ballistae fired explosive shells and thunderbolt shells with all their strength.
Countless fireball projectiles flew across the long yellow dust sky.
Loud noises like thunder echoed on the battlefield one after another.
Neither Liang Jun nor the Turkic soldiers had seen these things with their own eyes, and they were both shocked.
The fierce flames flying into the sky and the shrapnel flying among the galloping horses killed a large number of Turkic cavalry and Liang troops.
Their horses began to run wildly after being frightened in large numbers, and the entire military formation suddenly became chaotic.
At this time, countless heavy arrows with a length of three feet flew in.
These arrows could even pierce the bodies of Turkic heavy cavalry wearing fine mail armor.
The Liang army and the Turkic cavalry tried to fight back, but they found that they were still far away from the Sui army, far beyond the range of their long-range projectile weapons.
Amid the shouts of generals and leaders at all levels, they pushed forward for dozens of battles despite huge casualties, so that their bows and arrows could reach the Sui army's formation.
At this time, they saw from a distance that a wall was quickly pressing towards them.
It was a five-mile-long cavalry formation composed of five thousand Sui army heavy cavalry shoulder to shoulder, with four-meter-long lances neatly reaching in front of the horses' heads.
The generals and leaders of the Liang-Tu coalition forces quickly ordered their bows and arrows to be fully opened and fired rapidly at the galloping Sui army's cavalry formation.
However, it had no effect.
In an instant, the heavy cavalry rushed in front of them.
After each of the five thousand lances was inserted into the body of an enemy, the heavy cavalry riders abandoned their guns and drew out their steel knives, slashing rapidly while riding their horses.
This steel wall was like the tide of the Qiantang River, rushing the chaotic enemy cavalry in front to pieces.
At this critical moment, the sound of thousands of horses galloping like thunder came from the two wings of the position, and fifteen thousand flying Riding from both sides to kill In the Battle of Xiazhou, the main force of Liang's army was wiped out, and Liang Shidu was killed on the battlefield.
Not even one out of ten of the 30,000 Turkic cavalry survived, and the survivors fled into the depths of the desert in panic.
Liang Shidu and his younger brother led the remnants of the Liang Dynasty to surrender to the Sui Dynasty.
The Sui army did not stop, and sent 30,000 elite cavalry deep into Mobei to continue raids and harass the Turkic hinterland, eventually forcing Shibi Khan to pay tribute to Yang Guang again.
Destroyed the Liang division capital and made an emergency landing after the Turks.
Yang Guang also has a problem with Goguryeo.
But he no longer adopted the human wave strategy of recruiting soldiers from all over the world.
They still use the tactics of assault by elite troops, and they continue to harass them for a long time.
A small dozen every three years and a large dozen every five years.
The minimum number is 20,000 to 30,000 troops, and the maximum number is 60,000 to 70,000 troops.
They even crossed the sea from Qingzhou to plunder the hinterland of Goguryeo.
At the same time, military towns were set up on the Zhuojun line, and heavy troops were stationed to prevent Goguryeo from attacking southward.
In addition, the Turks were ordered to attack and plunder Goguryeo eastward.
Under the continuous military attack, Goguryeo's national power continued to be depleted, and the Goguryeo king's envoys came to the east capital to seek surrender but failed.
Finally, in the 30th year of Daye, the Sui army conquered Pyongyang, the capital of the country, and the entire territory of Goguryeo was pacified.
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In the same year, Baekje and Silla in the south of Goguryeo returned to the Sui Dynasty.
At this time, Yang Guang was nearly 70 years old, and he was tired of the protracted wars in this time and space.
The only thing that made him proud was that he did not let Li Er take advantage of him in the end, and that he finally pacified Goguryeo.
It surrendered to Silla and Baekje, and since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it has taken the entire peninsula into its hands
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